SRINAGAR (AFP) - Indian security forces fired live rounds and teargas Tuesday to disperse hundreds of Kashmiris who defied a curfew to protest against the recent police shooting of two demonstrators. Police officers said they fired shots after baton charges and teargas failed to deter hundreds of stone-pelting protesters who had broken a strict curfew in the northern town of Baramulla. An 11-year old boy was seriously hurt after receiving a shot to the head, a police officer said. On Monday, two young demonstrators were killed in Baramulla, 55 kilometres north of the Kashmiri summer capital Srinagar, while protesting against the alleged harassment of a Muslim woman by police. The shootings brought thousands more on to the streets in protests that spread to the neighbouring town of Sopore, prompting the district authorities to impose curfews in both towns. In Bandipora town, further north of Sopore, six people were hurt in clashes with police during a violent anti-India protest, police said. A general strike - called in response to the death of the protesters - brought life to a standstill Tuesday in Srinagar and other towns in the Muslim-dominated Kashmir valley. Schools, shops and offices closed in Srinagar where police patrols were out. A group of Kashmiri leaders who tried to reach Baramulla from Srinagar were detained by police midway.